Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights
| Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights | |
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| Also known as | Tramadol Nights |
| Genre | Sketch show |
| Created by | Frankie Boyle |
| Written by | Frankie Boyle Jim Muir Tom Stade Robert Florence |
| Starring | Frankie Boyle Jim Muir Tom Stade Robert Florence Thaila Zucchi Funmbi Omotayo Nathalie Sampson |
| Opening theme | Bobby Fuller – "Let Her Dance" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Tom Thostrup |
| Running time | 23–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | the Comedy Unit |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 30 November – 29 December 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights is a comedy sketch show created in 2010 by Frankie Boyle, starring Boyle himself alongside Jim Muir, Tom Stade, Robert Florence and Thaila Zucchi.
In October 2009, Boyle announced online that he would be leaving BBC panel show Mock the Week after seven series to focus on his tour and "some other funny things I'm writing". Later that month, he told The Daily Mirror that his new material would include a comedy sketch show for Channel 4, without censoring any of the black humour he had become known for. An appearance on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross followed, when Boyle revealed that the show was originally called Deal with This, Retards, but had to be changed to avoid offence. The show was consequently renamed Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights (a reference to the opioid drug Tramadol and the J. G. Ballard novel Cocaine Nights), with a broadcast date of November–December 2010.
The show mixed pre-recorded comedy sketches with stand-up routines before a studio audience who were "gleefully abused" by Boyle.
The show received a mixed critical reception. The first episode, broadcast on 30 November 2010 after an advertising campaign on London buses, attracted a "modest" audience (1.54 million viewers including the time-shifted repeat the same evening). The free daily newspaper Metro applauded the first episode's blend of stand-up and sketches, that "cantered gleefully – but never gratuitously - past the boundaries of taste and decency" with "some fantastically acerbic rants about religious people and the mentally ill."
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